Missions

Having a covenant mission means that Wesley will give a minimum of $500.00 per year in support of the project or the missionary. In 2024 Wesley gave $630.00. Wesley is beginning our third year in covenant MONTHLY MISSION FOCUS Temba Nkomozepi with Temba’s mission project, Mujila Fall Centre. Tema visited our church in 2023. Some of the members of our church were familiar with the Mission project called Musokatanda Agriculture Centre of the Democratic Republic of Congo through the work of Paul and Roxanne Webster. Mujila Falls Centre traces its origins to the Musokatanda Agriculture Project, launched in 1995 by Global Ministries missionaries Paul and Roxanne Webster in the southern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo. A civil conflict there caused the relocation of the Websters To Zambia and the development of a food security ministry at Mujila Falls on 1000 hectares of land donated by Chief Kanyama of the Lunda people. The Chief’s condition was that the center would teach basic sound agricultural principles to the residents of his chiefdom. It was dedicated in the year 2000 and has steadily grown in scope and importance to the area, also providing outreach to refugees from DRC. The school and community center are named in honor of Roxanne Webster who died of cancer in 2004. Temba Nkomozepi is a missionary with the United Methodist General Board of Global Ministries serving as an agriculturalist at Mujila Fall Agriculture Center in Kanyama, Zambia aft the retirement of Paul and Roxanne. Temba was commissioned in October 2017. Temba oversees a range of agricultural, education, health and building projects, as well as church growth and development. Mujila Falls raises essential crops such as corn, engages in small animal husbandry, cattle and goal milking, fruit nurseries, fish culture, and research. Temba is from Zimbabwe. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in agriculture from the UM related Africa University in Mutare. He holds both a Master of Science and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degrees in agricultural-civil engineering with an emphasis on water resources management from Kyungpook National University in Daegu, South Korea. He has worked for the Green Impact Trust, Caritas Harare, and the Zimbabwean department of agricultural extension. Temba has a wife and young son. Born into an Anglican family, Temba was baptized and confirmed in that church at age 15. He says “Sinc then, I’ve grown spiritually and experienced the rebuke and love of Jesus Christ.” At the time of his commissioning as a missionary, he was attending a congregation of the non-denominational Celebration Church in Harare. Temba’s favorite Bible verse if from 2 Kings 3, where the Lord fills a valley with water and protects it so people and animals can drink. “This passage,” he says “shows me that irrigation or agricultural engineering can play an important role in the will of God. I have made it my commitment to contribute to bringing together the perfect environment and inputs to grow crops and improve people’s livelihoods.”